Ornamental fabric.



A. s. WAITZPELDER. ORNAMENTAL FABRIC.

APPLIUATION FILED DEO. 14. 1903. N0 MODEL.

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ALB'ICHI SIDNEY 'rAll-ZliELDEIL OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AS1GNOR TO THE IxUl'tSllElGDF liiANUFAC/"UhNG COMPANY, OF NEW FORK, N. Y., A

(YOhPORA'llON OF NEW YORK.

ORNAMENTAL FABRIC.

SPECIFICATIN forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,851, dated April 19, 1904. Application tiled December 14,1903. Serial No. 185,065. (lio specimens.)

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Be it known that I, ALBERT SIDNEY WVAITZ- runnen, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough oi' Manhattan, city, county,

and State of New York,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Fabrics, of which the following is especification.

IO ornamental fabrics, and will be described with particular reference to the accompanying drawings, with the understanding, however, that in describing one specih'c form of my invention l do not mean-to be limited thereto,

I 5 but desire my claims to be understood and interpreted in accordance with any limitations that may be imposed by the state of the art.

ln the drawings, Figure I is a face View of l the fabric embodying my invention; and Fig.

2O "1l is a diagrammatic-view showing one form thereof. i

This specific embodiment-is but one of nu- 'rnerous forms o'f which my invention may be 4 embodied. l

1n the drawings, u. indicates aseries of strips. lnv the present instance these stri ps are strips of iiexible material, such as ratan covered with threads running laterally thereofe--in the present instance shown as the character of braiding made on a President type of braiding-machine. intervening between these strips are openrwork or other :desired effects L, shown herein as of the general type of the Mexican stitch, the specific character of which will be disclosed in describing Fig. Il.

By Mexicanstitch' I 'mean an open-work mesh of the general appearance of Mexican drawn-work.

The form illustrated is made on a knitting-- 40 fmachine, and the strips c are knitted into the structure by w ett-threads c, the entire structure being a homogeneous structure, and the weft-4 threads running, from edge to edgeof the fabric. Running along each edge of the flexible strips e is a line of knitted stitches el, which 1 maybe considered td partei* the Mexican My invention relates to improvements in` stitch, although, strictly speaking, these lines o't' knitted thread may be considered as part of the warp.

In Fig. Il are shown diagrammatically the. course of the threads, preserving, however, the general scheme ot' reference-lettering in l and omitting the covering of the ratan strips for the purposes of clearer illustration. ln this drawing, fz represents the ratan strips, (Y the rows of knitted stitches at the edges of the ratan strips, and i c the row of knitted stitches at about the middle of the space between the adjacent ratan strips, which stitches form an integral part of the Mexican stitch. The course of the weft-threads in the Jr'ramc oi my structure shown herein as an example or sample structure may be readily followed. For these purposes 1 havev shown two of the threads shaded. These threads are lettered f and y, and their course or circuit may be traced as follows: In the case ot' the threadf from f tof to]02 tofI3 tof tof" tof tof?. 1n the same manner the course ot' the thread g may b e traced from ,7 to gto g2 to g3 to y* t0 70 .ffto f7.

It will 'be observed that the thread f passes through the knitted stitch d at one edge of one of the ratan strips a to f', thence through the knitted stitch at the other edge', thence 75 across the ratan strip to the pointfz, thence through both knitted `e'dges of another ratan strip, and thence back to iirstnnentioned ratan strip, where a repeat of the movement occurs.

The ratan-'strip at the top ci' Fig. II is in 8o tended to represent one of the ratan strips vforming a part of the body of the fabric and the ratan strip at the lower portion of Fig. Il is intended to represent the ratan strip at .the edge of the fabric, the threads being ar- 85 yranged on the body-strips diiferently than the varrangement on the edge strips.

I am aware that it has been proposed' to produce a Structure somewhat analogous to -the one described by me by making the Mcxican stitch separate from the covered tiexible strips and sewing the 'Mexican stitch to the edges of the covered fiexible strips; .but iny invention is distinguished therefrom by the fact, arnong others, that threads forming part v oi' the Mexican stitch extend over or around the ratan strips, therebyl producing a homogeneous fabric structure which may be made either on a knitting-machine or in any other suitable manner desired. A

Having described one form of my invention IO and the -rnode of constructing same, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-` cnt, isl 1. Fabric containing strips of stiening material separated by open-work fabric' consisting of rows of loops, joined by crossed weftthreads interlooped therewith, the said stiiiening-strips being substantially parallel with the rows of loops.

2. Fabric containing strips of stiil'ening material separated by open-work fabric consisting of rows of loops each formed from a single thread, joined by crossed weft-threads intcrloopcd therewith, the said s'titfening-strips being substantially parallel with the rows of p loops.

3. A fabric of the character described coniprising spaced flexible strips located side by side, a row of loops located alongside the in?" ner 4edge of each strip, another row lof loops disposed between and in spaced-relation to the lirst-mentioned rows, and weft-threads enibracing the strips and interlocked with the various rows ot' loops.

4. A lfabric oi. the character described coniv prisingl spaced strips, a continuous row oi." knit stitches 'formed from thread and located between the sti-ips, and weft-threads embracing the strlps and lnterlockcd with the row of stitches, said weft-threads being separate from the thread forming the row or'l stitches.

5. A fabric of the character described cornsets having looped portions located on opposite sides of the strips and intel-locked with the rows of stitches.

7. A fabric of the character described, coinprising spaced ilexiblc strips, rows of loopstitches extending longitudinally along the opposite edges of the strips, another row of loepl stitches extending longitudinally between the strips and the inner adjacent rows, and separate sets of weft-th reads embracing the strips and interlooped with the rows of stitches located alongside the same, said sets of weftthrcads being disposed in diagonal intersecting relation in the space between the strips and having theirpoints of intersection located in and embraced by the said intermediate row of stitches.

Witnesses:

M. MCELLIGOTT, Gmo. E. Mensa. 

